Definition for PROG-NO'SIS

PROG-NO'SIS, n. [Gr. προγνωσις, from προγινωσκω, to know before; προ and γινωσκω.]

In medicine, the art of foretelling the course and event of a disease; the judgment of the course and event of a disease by particular symptoms. – Coxe. Hooper.

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